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Covid. to date, more than 600,000 americans have died in the last year. wisconsin senator ron johnson was among the first to question why certain medicines were ignored or criticized to treat covid-19. he joins me right now along with dr. pierre corey, an infectious disease specialist whose testimony before senator johnson's committee was censored by google's youtube. both men made the case that early treatment of covid even for those with mild symptoms prevents later hospitalizations so why weren't we doing it. gentlemen, thank you so much for being here this morning. good to have you both. d...

Weekly links June 4: summer learning, how space constraints make papers longer, aid targets the easy to reach, and more… ·       The Master Schedule for the NBER Summer institute is now up. Looks like it is all on zoom, so a chance to potentially attend sessions that you might not otherwise do so. The Development and Productivity session is on July 21; the Development sessions are July 26-27;  and the Labor Studies sessions also look really interesting. One noticeable thing when browsing through the sessions is the almost complete absence of any papers about COVID-19. ·      ...

India could overcome the pandemic by the year-end if the AIG treatment protocols are followed religiously along with a vigourous vaccination drive, says Padma Bhushan Dr B Nageshwar Reddy in an interview to Outlook.

Trans fats were good for us and nudges can easily become shoves. if you're enrolled in a weight loss program or a retirement program, can you at some point opt out or would the state then become death and taxes and weight watchers are unavoidable. keep in mind the administration is beginning its recruiting in academia, sending a letter to an unnamed professor saying, quoting here "looking for people with strong analytic skills, experience designing, testing and evaluating randomized control trials, and a strong research background in social psychology, cognitive psychology and behavioral econo...

We've got ideas. but we can't guarantee those ideas will work so we will republican pilots, run randomized control trials, the same way drugs are tried out. can you run a randomized control trial. we will try the new ideas out. and if they work we will use them and apply them more widely. if they don't work, we will stop. and there's no shame in that. i think part of this culture of admitting failure is admitting you don't know ahead of time. but it is tremendously difficult to do. the very polarized culture and politics in general where people are just encouraged to offer very simple solution...